Re: [Usability]Re: GNOME personas

[murrayc t-online de (Murray Cumming)]

On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 14:09, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> >  - there's some room to design for some users first, and some users
> >    later. For example, I think we might be looking at office users
> >    with a sysadmin handy first, and home users later. For this
> >    exercise, we want to pick 3 personas to be primary *now*.
> 
> I would be wary of constricting the short-term GNOME audience like this.
> I cannot see why it would be anything but advantageous to do our best to
> design for all personas, without the "We don't need to worry about this
> being confusing to Steve, he's not a primary persona" attitude that
> could arise by having primary personas.

The personas would not be exclusive. Caring about one person's concerns
does not mean that you can't care about other peoples' concerns too. We
would be free to continue to be vague about hypothetical non-identified
personas. We should not expect to identify all representative personas
at first, because it will not happen. We should maybe _aim_ to identify
them all one day. 

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Murray Cumming
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